No, no idea about gitlab. The packaging of gitorious will be my first
package under the ruby team's umbrella, so I am pretty new to that team.
Maybe someone else has a clue...

Thanks Mike for taking this up. It was in my wishlist too once I get
diaspora packaged.

You are welcome. I will be very busy during the next two weeks, but
after that, I will start on the packaging. I am already in contact
with Gitorious upstream and I will invite them to Cc: to #700630 when
we communicate.